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title: Psalms 20:2 (JPS 1917) — The LORD answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of J… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high; Who acts: LORD, name. Psalms 20:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 20:2 · JPS 1917

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The LORD answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;

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**Who acts:** LORD, name · **What happens:** answer, set up, name · **To what, where:** thee, high, God

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This is Psalms 20:2 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LORD, name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PSA:283
# text = The LORD answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADV	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	high	high	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | thee |  |  | day |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |
| 2 | **set up** | past | the name of the God of Jacob | thee |  | high |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme on high=Destination |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | the God of Jacob |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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יַֽעַנְךָ֣ יְ֭הוָה בְּי֣וֹם צָרָ֑ה יְ֝שַׂגֶּבְךָ֗ שֵׁ֤ם ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֬י יַעֲקֹֽב׃

[Psalms 20:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.20.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:283` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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